Museum number
2019.354
Object
Saucer (part of set), Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, c.1752
Description
crisply applied with profusely blossomed prunus sprays, the saucer with lobed rim.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
saucer
Founded in the mid-1740s, the Bow factory, located in Bow, now East London, was the first English manufacturer to make porcelain on a commercial scale. Bow porcelain was largely aimed at the middle-classes. Famous for its imitations of imported Chinese and Japanese porcelain, the factory also produced some of the earliest full-length figures in English porcelain. From the 1760s the quality declined and the factory closed around 1774. The factory’s legacy lives on as its use of bone ash in the manufacture of porcelain evolved into what we know as English bone china.

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